I don’t want to be totally uninformed about what’s going on, but I also don’t want to fall into doomscrolling.
I know that I could very easily just avoid any news sites and only find out about these things secondhand from people I talk to whether in real life or online. I also know that it’s not good to bury your head in the sand quite that far.
I could also very easily doomscroll different news sites and actively seek out more depressing news when I’m done scrolling one site. I’ve been doing more of this option lately, and as a reaction to that I’ve started doing total avoidance, which I know isn’t good.
So how and where did you strike a healthy balance between reading enough news to stay informed, but not enough to be in a constant state of anxiety about the world?
I’m looking for genuine advice here. I don’t want to be mean but I’m not too sure else how to say the following: I don’t want to come back to a lot of replies about “I didn’t find a balance lol I just doomscroll/stick my head in the sand” and “I feel this, same.” Not really sure if that’s going against the spirit of the chatting community, but seeing a lot of “same problem” and zero advice tends to make me feel more in despair. I already know this is a common problem, so what would usually be the correct social move of saying you relate in order to empathize and let the other know they’re not alone isn’t helpful for me in this particular instance.
I try to ignore those posts as much as I can, though of course some of them do indirectly concern me; I just don’t really read into it. At the same time, I’m trying to do something about it. I would like nothing more then a good book or video game and to stay in my room with it all week/month, but I couldn’t do that in good conscience knowing what’s happening. So, despite my NEET soul, I’m in school slowly learning what I can do to hopefully pull the rug out from under the feet of a particular industry. It might be too late, but I’ll try regardless. I still sometimes fall into that doom-scrolling-it’s hopeless-why even bother mood, but a few hours of video games or a good book bring me out of it. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
